This year I took part in a pumpkin carving contest. I knew I didn’t have a chance unless I had a gimmick…so I grabbed my trusty oil burner ignition transformer and some wire coat hanger. I mean, wh...

A few days ago I had a chance to talk to some amateur radio operators about something called Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS). APRS is a low bandwidth data communications mechanism that ope...

I wrote an interface in ruby between the Twitter API and the chatterbox software MegaHAL. Why? I don’t know. Initially, I had it using the same brain developed over a few weeks of MegaHAL sitting i...

Recently, I had the chance to spend a few days in Seoul and Daejeon Korea to work directly with one of our customers. It had been about a year since I was overseas last, so my travel bug was start...

This is a simple application I wrote in Ruby to allow you to overlay images from two directories on top of each other as if they were on tracing paper. The top image is 50% transparent, allowing yo...

OpenInterval is an older project of mine to create a universal IR interval timer that can support any camera capable of accepting remote control input. I left it at the point where it supports my N...

Big Blue Saw is having a free part day on August 6. You can create one part to be made from laser cut acrylic or waterjet cut aluminum, just pay shipping. It’s a shame that I don’t have any project...

After years of thinking about it, I finally registered a domain for myself and got a real website up. Good bye free hosting, good bye home server, hello internet.

Egypt has far too many sites to see, with more being discovered all the time. I’ve never been so amazed and exhausted with a trip. You can follow us on our voyage with my extension to the Google Ma...